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title: Nest eggs won't hatch unless you set on them! Hang on to your war bonds
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nest-eggs-wont-hatch-war-bonds-1944/
description: Drawing of a brooding hen with chicks, in brown and yellow, under the headline Nest eggs won't hatch unless you set on them!
section: Collection
---

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[![Nest eggs won't hatch unless you set on them! Hang on to your war bonds, 1944 US poster: Drawing of a brooding hen](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/nest-eggs-wont-hatch-war-bonds-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/nest-eggs-wont-hatch-war-bonds-1944.jpg)

# Nest eggs won't hatch unless you set on them! Hang on to your war bonds

Drawing of a brooding hen with chicks, in brown and yellow, under the headline Nest eggs won't hatch unless you set on them! and the line Hang on to your WAR BONDS. The barnyard idiom does the persuading, a folksy plain-folks register asking buyers to keep bonds rather than cash them; the technique is faint.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Nest eggs won't hatch
unless you set
on them!
Hang on to your
WAR BONDS
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-609248]
OFFICIAL U. S. TREASURY POSTER
WFD-949
```

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